Using Macports on OS X is beautiful, but sometimes when you install a library, it does something unexpected. No so wholly wrong that you think the creator is stupid, just messed up enough to detour you for 20 minutes while you figure out what happened.
I like to keep my list of install ports short—I’d [...]
Geektook is pretty cool stuff. One of its most flexible uses is to render the output of shell commands onto your desktop.
Unfortunately, you might be confused for a while when seemingly arbitrary simple commands produce no output at all. Debugging is hard when stderr is being discarded!
It turns out that Geektool [...]
One of the most frustrating types of problem is one where you can’t control something that is obviously going wrong.
For months, off and on, I’ve been casually trying to start Python3.2 virtualenvs for projects, because I care very much about progressing the state of Python 3.x’s ecosystem. But every time I tried to create [...]
Most of the documentation in the wild says this should work, but it’s slightly outdated at this point. The coreutils port in fact installs the tools with a “g” prefix (resulting in executables like “gls” instead of “ls”), but it also symlinks those for you at the following location:
/opt/local/libexec/gnubin
So just add that to [...]
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Tim Valenta
Amateur at everything, coder, UI designer, musician, and writer. I break things apart and re-program them from scratch to learn exactly which problems people have solved in the past. I write for NaNoWriMo, and I'm nearing the self publication of a short story called Highway.
Python is my passion. Alastair Reynolds writes great science fiction, but has a really ugly website. My Mac is my Linux without all the driver failures. I hate working directly for salesmen. Huge scented candles are surprisingly nice when you work from home all day. I play AP Mid lane for my League of Legends team, but love a good run at Top.
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